{"id":6199,"date":"2023-11-30T18:36:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/?page_id=6199"},"modified":"2025-11-05T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:55:36","slug":"career-designing-self-reflection-prompts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/career-designing-self-reflection-prompts\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Designing: Self-Reflection Prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Career Designing: Self-Reflection Prompts\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What do you like to do in your spare time?<\/li><li>What were you doing the last time you lost track of time?<\/li><li>What motivates you?<\/li><li>What keeps your curiosity?<\/li><li>What makes you feel really alive?<\/li><li>What do you value that doesn\u2019t cost money?<\/li><li>What\u2019s your earliest memory of achievement?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What do you like to work with most? What appeals to you most?<ul><li>People, concepts, things, data?<\/li><li>Putting things together like a puzzle and finding solutions (akin to clinical)<\/li><li>Taking things apart to determine what happened or went wrong (akin to research)<\/li><li>Would you want your role to involve discovering or developing something?<\/li><li>Would you rather deliver the product or service that someone else discovers or develops?<\/li><li>Do you like working directly with people or would you rather be on your own for long stretches of time?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What do you value in career aspects of your life?<ul><li>Money? Fame? Success \u2013 and what does that look like for you?<\/li><li>Do you want to identify with your career or have a job that pays the bills so you can pursue various interests in other ways?<\/li><li>9-5 type? Shift work? Motivated for entrepreneurial lifestyle?<\/li><li>Do you plan to have children?<\/li><li>Are private insurance\/benefits important? Vacation?<\/li><li>Do you like high adrenaline fast paced environments? Or not so much.<\/li><li>Do you want predictability? Can anticipate what the day will look like? Or okay with no idea where the week will take you?<\/li><li>Desk job versus more active?<\/li><li>Desire or willingness to be in public eye (media)?<\/li><li>Teaching appeal to you?<\/li><li>Travel?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>What have you liked most about what you\u2019re learned so far in courses related to your main discipline of study?<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What courses have you found most interesting so far? Do you know why?<\/li><li><strong>What have you not liked so much about NEUR courses? Do you know why?<\/strong><\/li><li>Do you have any specific interest about a faculty member\u2019s research or teaching focus?<\/li><li>Have you felt inspired by any of your professors? How and why are they inspiring?<\/li><li>What non-NEUR courses have you liked most so far? Do you know why?<\/li><li>What have been your least favourite? Do you know why?<\/li><li>What are you drawn to for electives, and why?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What skills do you think you possess?<ul><li>Innate and developed through life (not necessarily academic)<\/li><li>Academic and through university so far<\/li><li>What areas do you feel you need improvement?<\/li><li>What are you really good at? What\u2019s your greatest strength?<\/li><li>What skills would you like to gain?<\/li><li>What can you do today that you couldn\u2019t do a year ago?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Think back to how you would have approached a task\/assignment\/project in high school versus now. Consider how far you\u2019ve come with skills sets, ways of thinking, approaches to problem-solving.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Reflect on your past and current experience. Do you have more experience now with any of the following? What stands out the most to you as a skill you\u2019ve developed throughout your degree?<ul><li><em>Communicating scientific data to various audiences<\/em><\/li><li><em>Gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data<\/em><\/li><li><em>Identifying and understanding a variety of neurobehavioral diseases, as well as contemporary treatment options<\/em><\/li><li><em>Critically evaluating scientific data<\/em><\/li><li><em>Appraising and understanding ethical considerations of animal and human research<\/em><\/li><li><em>Logical reasoning\/critical\/analytical thinking<\/em><\/li><li><em>Operating scientific\/lab equipment<\/em><\/li><\/ul><ul><li><em>Creative thinking; problem solving skills; approaching topics and problems from various perspectives; analyzing multiple dimensions of a problem; identifying problems and developing solutions; decision making skills<\/em><\/li><li><em>Teamwork skills: the ability to oversee, supervise and\/or contribute to a project<\/em><\/li><li><em>Independently working with little direction<\/em><\/li><li><em>Data, time, and resource management<\/em><\/li><li><em>Inspecting specimens<\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Who is your greatest inspiration?<\/li><li>Who in your life works a job that you think you\u2019d like? What about it appeals to you?<\/li><li>Who in your life works in a field you do not like? What don\u2019t you like about it?<\/li><li>What are the elements of that dream job that appeal to you most?<\/li><li>What does this world need more of?<\/li><li>What matters to you most in life and why?<\/li><li>What does success look like to you in general?<\/li><li>Is there anyone in your life you admire? Why? What do you admire about them?<\/li><li>What do you hope to achieve in 5 years?<\/li><li>Pretend time and money are no object\u2026<ul><li>What does your contribution to the world look like and involve?<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>What do you spend your days doing?<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>How do you serve your community?<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Be as detailed and as imaginary (or not) as you wish! See if something surprises you if you just let yourself write out your wildest dreams\u2026<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you like to do in your spare time? What were you doing the last time you lost track of time? What motivates you? What keeps your curiosity? What makes you feel really alive? What do you value that doesn\u2019t cost money? What\u2019s your earliest memory of achievement? 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